On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 09:18 -0700, Joe Pruett wrote: > The ability to have automount point to automount is something I use heavily > as well. Otherwise I end up with many hundreds of nfs mounts on the server > at a time. having hundreds of bind mounts on the client is preferrable. The > old sun method of doing this was: > host:/path/name:dir > which would mount host:/path/name and then symlink dir. Now we' d use > bind/loopback mounts. But that syntax has been gone a long time. > > It doesn't seem like threading should inherently cause a problem. Each > request should be a new thread and wait for the underlying mount (which might > be recursive) to finish. >
It does cause a problem. The process group is used by the kernel module to prevent the daemon itself from triggering mounts. In the threaded environment there is currently one program group so one thread cannot cause another thread to trigger a mount. I'll have to fix it. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
